1 00:00:01,23 --> 00:00:06,77 Ladies and gentlemen I'm looking forward to spending to the grocery store they sell 2 00:00:06,78 --> 00:00:07,29 us like 3 00:00:07,30 --> 00:00:13,01 a secretary of Arlington so they're already. Going to tell you this for I'm giving 4 00:00:13,02 --> 00:00:17,51 you an opportunity to hear each of those of the candidates vying to be the 5 00:00:17,52 --> 00:00:21,05 Democratic candidate who with your support and 6 00:00:21,06 --> 00:00:24,98 a good strategy will reach what retired great walled in. 7 00:00:33,83 --> 00:00:34,16 Just 8 00:00:34,17 --> 00:00:39,06 a year ago I and several other bird credits for the affiliate of our revolution here 9 00:00:39,07 --> 00:00:44,89 in Southern Oregon Our revolution is the successor organization to standers 10 00:00:44,94 --> 00:00:50,52 presidential campaign. Affiliates around the country are united in supporting 11 00:00:50,53 --> 00:00:56,92 Bertie's platform issues and in truth populist progressive vision for. 12 00:00:58,27 --> 00:01:03,25 One of the top positions to the Trump agenda goes without saying we also have 13 00:01:03,26 --> 00:01:07,34 redress reject the destructive neo con N.D.P. 14 00:01:07,35 --> 00:01:12,42 a Liberal policies of the past Republican and Democrat institutions. 15 00:01:17,37 --> 00:01:19,57 Bernie showed is that an individual with 16 00:01:19,58 --> 00:01:24,82 a twenty seven dollars donation as well thought of voluntary spirit and shake up 17 00:01:24,83 --> 00:01:31,72 the corrupt corporate ties system that is played as even before the disastrous two 18 00:01:31,73 --> 00:01:37,39 thousand and ten Citizens United decision. Our local affiliate numbers about two 19 00:01:37,40 --> 00:01:42,19 hundred people it happened joined as yet please sign up for one of the courses in 20 00:01:42,20 --> 00:01:48,66 the back of the room to receive information. Now before I introduce our moderator 21 00:01:48,67 --> 00:01:53,16 and the candidates introduce themselves I want you to meet our officers were 22 00:01:53,17 --> 00:01:58,67 terrorists Banfield and duck there's been teller president Colette Perry Miller. 23 00:02:04,14 --> 00:02:10,86 And our vice president Lori Hoagland I'm sorry Treasurer Gloria Hogan 24 00:02:10,99 --> 00:02:15,95 Yep and I have to tell you that these three ladies are passionate Bernie Wrightson 25 00:02:15,96 --> 00:02:20,44 the most committed and finishes individuals I've ever had the pleasure to work with 26 00:02:20,44 --> 00:02:22,37 . I also want to give 27 00:02:22,38 --> 00:02:27,01 a shout out to our tolerant spouses partners and children who have had to endure 28 00:02:27,02 --> 00:02:30,25 our really lent let's focus on all things Bernie. 29 00:02:36,88 --> 00:02:39,33 We are fortunate in southern Oregon to have 30 00:02:39,34 --> 00:02:44,61 a number of local organizations with whom we sometimes partner including health 31 00:02:44,62 --> 00:02:51,57 care for all Oregon so there are good climate action now unite Oregon he's thousand 32 00:02:51,62 --> 00:02:56,87 jobs with justice and most recently the Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalists 33 00:02:56,96 --> 00:03:00,09 fellowship social justice and actually community. 34 00:03:03,91 --> 00:03:08,96 We look forward to more collaboration with these and other organizers going forward 35 00:03:09,46 --> 00:03:14,03 on a personal note I celebrate the number of organizations that are being run by 36 00:03:14,04 --> 00:03:20,29 a new generation of young bright energetic women women for example like Michelle 37 00:03:20,30 --> 00:03:21,04 glass and 38 00:03:21,05 --> 00:03:28,33 a soul of rogue action center and growth. And 39 00:03:28,34 --> 00:03:32,11 our own band and all that very melody. 40 00:03:37,01 --> 00:03:43,75 My pleasure to introduce one such dedicated activists to help equity organizer at 41 00:03:43,76 --> 00:03:49,21 Unite Oregon she has been working in social justice related to health care for 42 00:03:49,22 --> 00:03:49,45 about 43 00:03:49,46 --> 00:03:54,84 a decade she began as an Internet Planned Parenthood in stayed on through the two 44 00:03:54,85 --> 00:03:55,32 thousand 45 00:03:55,33 --> 00:04:00,18 a selection that experience only solidified her commitment in working to fight 46 00:04:00,52 --> 00:04:05,55 inequality and racism through organizing and that is an engagement ladies and 47 00:04:05,56 --> 00:04:10,35 gentlemen I am pleased to introduce our moderator for tonight's forum Rebecca 48 00:04:10,36 --> 00:04:10,89 Pearson. 49 00:04:19,23 --> 00:04:24,90 Hi everyone one of our eight 50 00:04:25,91 --> 00:04:32,55 so up at this time and I give you all some guidelines. To some housekeeping we're 51 00:04:32,56 --> 00:04:37,59 going to ask everyone to please silence cell phones and other electronics we're 52 00:04:37,60 --> 00:04:42,62 also encouraging folks pictures tweets recordings or live stream totally allowed us 53 00:04:43,53 --> 00:04:48,88 please be respectful of your neighbors so as you do that we are using the hash tag 54 00:04:48,93 --> 00:04:54,43 our Rev CD to it's up there with me associated with this event so thank you for 55 00:04:54,44 --> 00:04:59,48 using that if you do hope in keeping with our intention to respect everyone and 56 00:04:59,48 --> 00:05:03,21 stay within our allotted time we request that the audience refrain from 57 00:05:03,22 --> 00:05:09,13 interruptions of any kind during this forum including but not limited to questions 58 00:05:09,16 --> 00:05:13,41 statements or applause until closing statements are given by the candidate and 59 00:05:13,43 --> 00:05:18,77 we're not able to include every question submitted by the public today but we will 60 00:05:18,78 --> 00:05:24,37 send every single question to the candidates and we will record any of our rest of 61 00:05:24,37 --> 00:05:28,22 the responses that we receive and they'll be found on our Facebook page so be on 62 00:05:28,23 --> 00:05:33,65 the lookout for that and ask right now and ask the candidate to come take their 63 00:05:33,66 --> 00:05:38,09 seats. I have some guidelines for you all as well. 64 00:05:49,27 --> 00:05:52,03 When they're five and it's that you know all that progressive candidate for 65 00:05:52,04 --> 00:05:57,49 Congressional District two so candidates when one of you begins your role in 66 00:05:57,50 --> 00:06:01,94 Congress you'll have to follow since strict rules about the length of time allotted 67 00:06:01,95 --> 00:06:06,00 for your statements on the floor of the house with this in mind we're giving you 68 00:06:06,01 --> 00:06:06,29 all 69 00:06:06,30 --> 00:06:12,34 a great opportunity to practice these skills in communicating. With concise clear 70 00:06:12,35 --> 00:06:17,94 statements and we request that you respect the timekeeper sitting up here and I 71 00:06:17,95 --> 00:06:22,05 will cut you off if you go beyond your allotted time so please do not have the on 72 00:06:22,06 --> 00:06:27,52 this. All right. Now now I've got 73 00:06:27,53 --> 00:06:34,44 a big hook. All right so we're going to start with introductions you all 74 00:06:34,45 --> 00:06:41,10 have two minutes each. And we're going to start with Jamie McLeod Skinner. Well 75 00:06:41,14 --> 00:06:44,79 thank you all for being here this is really what democracy looks like and thank you 76 00:06:44,80 --> 00:06:49,61 to our organizers as well my name is Jamie McLeod Skinner I finished high school 77 00:06:49,65 --> 00:06:55,89 just down the road from here and went off to school studying in June hearing and 78 00:06:55,90 --> 00:06:59,71 planning and went on to commit myself to 79 00:06:59,72 --> 00:07:04,80 a life of public service but what really drove that decision was something that 80 00:07:04,81 --> 00:07:08,91 impacted me early on I was born Wisconsin My mom is 81 00:07:09,23 --> 00:07:14,67 a teacher retired teacher now and she she was a single mom with two kids in 82 00:07:14,68 --> 00:07:19,75 a small town Wisconsin way back when and she would get up early to drive 83 00:07:19,76 --> 00:07:22,36 a school bus she would work all day the teacher she drove 84 00:07:22,37 --> 00:07:28,08 a school bus the way home in the in the during the summer she would pick apples 85 00:07:28,09 --> 00:07:32,99 with migrant workers who know table her kids and there were times that I recall her 86 00:07:33,00 --> 00:07:37,52 saying she wasn't hungry dinnertime and that was looking back in adult realizing 87 00:07:37,53 --> 00:07:40,86 that is because there was just enough food for two people and there were three 88 00:07:40,87 --> 00:07:43,84 people the helpful. And I don't often tells 89 00:07:43,85 --> 00:07:47,88 a personal story that I don't often tell you talk about my experience with 90 00:07:47,89 --> 00:07:52,90 a water expert my eight years and what that office my running and winning elections 91 00:07:53,26 --> 00:07:56,83 but I think what's really key when I look at all of the questions that are before 92 00:07:56,84 --> 00:08:02,44 us here tonight it's really about our core and our focus and what it shaped and I 93 00:08:02,48 --> 00:08:08,37 was profoundly shaped by my mom who's my greatest role model and the sacrifices 94 00:08:08,38 --> 00:08:14,93 that she made for our family and the role modeling that she did for us so when I 95 00:08:15,55 --> 00:08:19,48 finished my degrees in engineering and planning instead of going into the private 96 00:08:19,49 --> 00:08:22,100 sector I went over to Bosnia to run a 97 00:08:23,69 --> 00:08:28,74 a reconstruction program after the war that's the kind of dedication I've committed 98 00:08:28,75 --> 00:08:32,91 my life to and that's that's what I believe I will believe profoundly in public 99 00:08:32,92 --> 00:08:38,05 service and that's why I want to serve you in Congress thanks. Think we've been 100 00:08:38,64 --> 00:08:45,55 going to this is I am. Human My name is Jim Curry. 101 00:08:46,73 --> 00:08:50,78 First of all Who was it this is an incredible crowd I ran in two thousand and 102 00:08:50,79 --> 00:08:55,06 sixteen and when I was running if I ever it twenty five people in 103 00:08:55,07 --> 00:09:00,80 a room it was like over the top exciting here we are ten months before the general 104 00:09:00,81 --> 00:09:05,81 election and look at it and this is not only unique to Medford it was in Ashland it 105 00:09:05,81 --> 00:09:12,30 was in. The Sun River everywhere so this is indicative of why we are going to 106 00:09:12,31 --> 00:09:16,52 repeal and replace great Waldon in two thousand and sixteen here throughout making 107 00:09:17,18 --> 00:09:22,79 Thank you. I'm originally from North Dakota graduated my school went to college for 108 00:09:22,80 --> 00:09:28,11 a year I enlisted in the Army for two years I got out of the Army at Fort Lewis up 109 00:09:28,12 --> 00:09:32,77 in Washington I went to school at pathetic loser and university graduated with 110 00:09:32,77 --> 00:09:34,26 a business degree for 111 00:09:34,27 --> 00:09:39,50 a year I went to law school in San Diego. Went up to Alaska when I was in law 112 00:09:39,51 --> 00:09:43,84 school on an internship program after I graduated law school I went back to North 113 00:09:43,85 --> 00:09:47,10 Dakota for a couple of years I worked for a small law firm for 114 00:09:47,11 --> 00:09:52,04 a year. Taught at the University of North Dakota for a year filling in for 115 00:09:52,05 --> 00:09:56,97 a guided because sabbatical to move back to Alaska and I work I was up there for 116 00:09:56,98 --> 00:10:01,18 twenty four years first fourteen years I was with the municipality of Anchorage I 117 00:10:01,19 --> 00:10:01,32 was 118 00:10:01,33 --> 00:10:07,03 a prosecutor I did some insurance defense and then I started to do contracts and procurement 119 00:10:07,75 --> 00:10:09,46 in ninety seven I went with B.P. 120 00:10:09,47 --> 00:10:14,20 The oil and gas company and I'll talk more about that later but. 121 00:10:17,31 --> 00:10:18,36 So I was with B.P. 122 00:10:18,37 --> 00:10:22,69 I did contracts I was not in the legal department I worked over in Algeria for five 123 00:10:22,70 --> 00:10:25,11 years and then I retired from B.P. 124 00:10:25,12 --> 00:10:30,21 In December of two thousand and thirteen I married I have four children two of my 125 00:10:30,22 --> 00:10:35,48 daughters speech it has unlimited here in Medford my youngest daughter is 126 00:10:35,49 --> 00:10:42,35 a junior up at the University of Oregon and so my phone is working trying to get it 127 00:10:42,35 --> 00:10:47,04 . Thank you. Thank you again calling. 128 00:10:56,07 --> 00:11:03,01 Trump is going to get us killed Greg Walden is his chief enabler Hi My 129 00:11:03,02 --> 00:11:05,17 name is Mike Byrne on 130 00:11:05,18 --> 00:11:10,14 a stonemason on the working class candidate for fifty years I've worked in this 131 00:11:10,15 --> 00:11:11,45 district raising 132 00:11:11,46 --> 00:11:15,98 a family worked in the woods on the farms and ranches and up on the mountain 133 00:11:18,89 --> 00:11:22,46 to get the whole story though you're going to have to go to my Web site Congressman 134 00:11:22,47 --> 00:11:24,72 Burton dot com There's actually 135 00:11:24,73 --> 00:11:31,46 a fifty one minute long video unedited you learn everything you need to know 136 00:11:31,47 --> 00:11:36,03 about me that's quite an investment as Peter sage suggested but I know it's worth 137 00:11:36,04 --> 00:11:40,05 it that was done several months ago but I haven't changed. 138 00:11:43,94 --> 00:11:46,92 Are you tired of the bad news. I mean come on as 139 00:11:46,93 --> 00:11:52,14 a candidate I need to know this stuff so I'm staying up with this wife beaters 140 00:11:54,04 --> 00:11:58,27 Scott Pruitt is now saying he's just to quit denying climate change now he says 141 00:11:58,32 --> 00:12:04,40 global warming is good can you all hear me back there. But hey there's some good 142 00:12:04,41 --> 00:12:08,69 news and I want to share this with you Mike Pence left Korea without starting 143 00:12:08,70 --> 00:12:13,34 a nuclear war. There's 144 00:12:13,35 --> 00:12:18,92 a lot knows think about the Olympics one everybody laid down their weapons it's the 145 00:12:18,93 --> 00:12:21,30 most peaceful time of the year I was 146 00:12:21,31 --> 00:12:25,04 a professional skier I skied with kids that have competed in the Olympics I know 147 00:12:25,05 --> 00:12:30,23 what it's up to what they're up against book and then Steve Bannon he says ten 148 00:12:30,23 --> 00:12:36,46 thousand years of patriarchy are over let's hear it. Not again do that 149 00:12:37,12 --> 00:12:41,73 well anyway now is the time you know the time it's time for our revolution our 150 00:12:41,73 --> 00:12:46,69 revolution we're going to go door to door we're going to talk to people we've got 151 00:12:46,73 --> 00:12:51,41 what money won't buy time and the time is ours 152 00:12:53,92 --> 00:13:00,91 thank you so much Mike All right we're going to move on to the doctor Jenny Mary I 153 00:13:00,92 --> 00:13:05,12 and I think any nearing and I don't usually introduce myself as Dr but it is why I 154 00:13:05,13 --> 00:13:07,51 am here so it's really important I've been 155 00:13:07,52 --> 00:13:11,86 a physician for almost three decades now and I have spent my career as 156 00:13:11,87 --> 00:13:18,48 a physician advocating and working for the. Very next story some of the 157 00:13:18,49 --> 00:13:25,41 testing. Oh Oh sorry thank you. I have spent my career working 158 00:13:25,42 --> 00:13:29,34 in advocating for the health and well being of Oregonians from all walks of life 159 00:13:29,51 --> 00:13:33,64 and that's what I want to do in Congress I was five years old when I decided to be 160 00:13:33,65 --> 00:13:35,27 a doctor and I love being 161 00:13:35,28 --> 00:13:39,48 a doctor it is the best job and I never thought that there was something else that 162 00:13:39,49 --> 00:13:44,69 I wanted to do but working in our broken health care system I found in the last six 163 00:13:44,70 --> 00:13:48,71 to twelve months as we saw the things that we've been working for in health care 164 00:13:48,72 --> 00:13:54,60 are going away the ability to live well and to live healthy to be able to get over 165 00:13:54,61 --> 00:13:58,72 your illness and go home and actually live independently be able to get back to 166 00:13:58,73 --> 00:13:59,50 work and get 167 00:13:59,51 --> 00:14:03,38 a living wage that you can actually afford to pay your rent with all of these 168 00:14:03,39 --> 00:14:07,39 things are going away in this last year all of them are being threatened and I 169 00:14:07,40 --> 00:14:11,78 found that in this last year I would go to work and come home and say I did some 170 00:14:11,79 --> 00:14:13,12 good work today I helped make 171 00:14:13,13 --> 00:14:17,71 a difference in someone's life and it just wasn't enough anymore my daughter told 172 00:14:17,72 --> 00:14:21,86 me of when she was in middle school that you know I'm not sure we're going to do 173 00:14:21,87 --> 00:14:23,18 mom but you're 174 00:14:23,19 --> 00:14:26,98 a doctor and I know you help people and that's great but I need to change the world 175 00:14:27,39 --> 00:14:28,42 and that has been 176 00:14:28,43 --> 00:14:32,32 a little foreign in my side for years because I'm pretty competitive and I don't 177 00:14:32,33 --> 00:14:37,11 like my daughter beating me and anything and this is my chance it feels like 178 00:14:37,12 --> 00:14:38,81 a magic perfect time this is 179 00:14:38,82 --> 00:14:42,66 a time for me to make the difference and to change the world and that's going to do 180 00:14:42,67 --> 00:14:46,82 for you by getting into Congress and making the changes we need so that we can live 181 00:14:46,83 --> 00:14:53,32 well and healthy and I promise to be your advocate there. Thank you 182 00:14:53,69 --> 00:15:00,48 Thank you Kenny Alright we're going to move on to rise Mason. It's good to be with 183 00:15:00,49 --> 00:15:03,08 you today friends we are in 184 00:15:03,09 --> 00:15:09,43 a very pivotal time in our society we're facing some interconnected challenges like 185 00:15:09,74 --> 00:15:16,62 the economy. The digital age technology and perhaps most 186 00:15:16,63 --> 00:15:19,61 pressing like climate change we have 187 00:15:19,62 --> 00:15:26,54 a window to respond to those there is an urgency to many people are responding to 188 00:15:26,55 --> 00:15:30,56 the necessary and natural anxiety. In 189 00:15:30,57 --> 00:15:37,04 a way that doesn't oppose our best values the net that anxiety is natural where 190 00:15:37,56 --> 00:15:42,44 we're evolved primates so of course we're going to be anxious but I'm hoping that 191 00:15:42,45 --> 00:15:48,83 instead of the low road of divisiveness and we can choose together to lift up the 192 00:15:48,84 --> 00:15:55,77 high road which is creativity courage and extending dignity to all people the 193 00:15:55,78 --> 00:16:01,58 goal before us is to be Greg Walden and part of what that entails is reaching out 194 00:16:01,59 --> 00:16:06,35 to the rural people who have voted for him again and again and when we do that we 195 00:16:06,35 --> 00:16:06,99 need to do it in 196 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:12,55 a way that extends dignity and I think that that's something I can offer my life 197 00:16:12,55 --> 00:16:13,35 has been spent in 198 00:16:13,37 --> 00:16:18,16 a variety of ways in gauging with people who seem at first blush very different 199 00:16:18,18 --> 00:16:22,77 from me I'm a former long haul truck driver I am 200 00:16:23,02 --> 00:16:28,14 a former science teacher who understands climate change I have a sharp mind and 201 00:16:28,15 --> 00:16:30,49 a mouth Maddux degree I work as 202 00:16:30,50 --> 00:16:37,04 a hospital chaplain and I serve people who are in their last days I can stay calm I 203 00:16:37,05 --> 00:16:37,13 have 204 00:16:37,14 --> 00:16:41,71 a master's degree from Harvard I can rub shoulders with the powerful and know I over 205 00:16:41,72 --> 00:16:45,09 them nothing except human dignity we can do this. 206 00:16:46,21 --> 00:16:53,10 Thank you thank you Ralph we're going to move on to Eric 207 00:16:53,11 --> 00:16:59,41 Brennan. The very first thing I want to say is thank you very much to our 208 00:16:59,42 --> 00:17:01,15 revolution for pulling this together this is 209 00:17:01,16 --> 00:17:05,28 a huge amount of work and look how crowded this room is this is wonderful this is 210 00:17:05,29 --> 00:17:08,67 right this is what it's going to take. To find 211 00:17:08,68 --> 00:17:14,07 a new line of work for Greg Walden and that's why we're here OK I'm Eric Burnett I 212 00:17:14,08 --> 00:17:17,60 live in Hood River I live about two blocks from Greg Walden I've known him since 213 00:17:17,61 --> 00:17:21,23 one thousand nine hundred one even voted for him once back when he was that sort of 214 00:17:21,24 --> 00:17:23,25 rational moderate guy who'd go for a hike with 215 00:17:23,26 --> 00:17:24,96 a blooming hour around the mountain come up with 216 00:17:24,97 --> 00:17:30,46 a reasonable force practical compromise he's not that guy anymore those days are 217 00:17:30,47 --> 00:17:34,93 over he's not that guy anymore a little bit about my background I'm 218 00:17:34,94 --> 00:17:37,69 a maritime academy graduate I worked as a ship's officer for 219 00:17:37,70 --> 00:17:44,31 a number of years I came ashore worked. Basically as the person under the. 220 00:17:45,64 --> 00:17:50,90 Governor's office at the Port of Portland in charge of deep draft Bessel 221 00:17:51,66 --> 00:17:53,98 infrastructure what does that mean means if you grew 222 00:17:53,99 --> 00:17:58,30 a ton of wheat anywhere in Eastern Oregon or Washington or Montana or the Dakotas 223 00:17:58,81 --> 00:18:02,28 and you ship it to Asia it went out through at least one of my infrastructure 224 00:18:02,29 --> 00:18:06,75 projects so I've been in the agriculture industry either moving stuff on the water 225 00:18:06,89 --> 00:18:11,32 or making sure that it can move on the water for pretty much all of my all of my 226 00:18:11,33 --> 00:18:17,98 commercial life. Why did I get into the race I took an early retirement from 227 00:18:18,40 --> 00:18:21,18 the executive director position at the organ board 228 00:18:21,19 --> 00:18:27,15 a maritime pilot's we did the licensing for the pilots and I ended up walking past 229 00:18:27,16 --> 00:18:32,75 Greg Walden house. Time and time again while he was running the fat and failed 230 00:18:32,76 --> 00:18:38,87 Obamacare repeal language his right front tire was halfway flat week after week 231 00:18:38,91 --> 00:18:44,20 after week he couldn't be bothered to come home and drive his own truck talk with 232 00:18:44,21 --> 00:18:45,97 his constituents as he was doing 233 00:18:46,18 --> 00:18:51,42 a huge amount of damage at that moment is right to serve in office was forfeit 234 00:18:51,53 --> 00:18:58,40 That's why I'm running. Because you know Eric we're going to move on in here 235 00:18:58,41 --> 00:19:04,46 from it seemly. That afternoon and thanks everybody for showing up my name is Tim 236 00:19:04,47 --> 00:19:08,36 White and I want to be your congressman from the second district I live in van but 237 00:19:08,37 --> 00:19:11,83 I'm originally from Indiana I went to school at Indiana or I have 238 00:19:11,84 --> 00:19:13,43 a degree in economics and an M.B.A. 239 00:19:13,44 --> 00:19:13,56 With 240 00:19:13,57 --> 00:19:17,93 a concentration finance after school I went to work for the Chrysler Corporation in 241 00:19:17,94 --> 00:19:21,32 one thousand and eighty the first time they were trying to go broke I'm as you 242 00:19:21,33 --> 00:19:25,89 listen to us tonight you're going to find out here we have more in common than we 243 00:19:25,90 --> 00:19:31,02 have differences so the real question is who is electable as 244 00:19:31,03 --> 00:19:35,88 a retired finance guy I can't give you the clever marketing campaigns I have 245 00:19:35,89 --> 00:19:39,77 friends and marking I have to call and to do that but the real thing the real 246 00:19:39,78 --> 00:19:43,95 question want to talk about is what political pundits say you need three things to 247 00:19:43,96 --> 00:19:48,53 win an election you need to have money you need to have 248 00:19:48,54 --> 00:19:50,02 a ground game and you need to have 249 00:19:50,03 --> 00:19:54,76 a message will Clinton outspent strong two to one she had 250 00:19:54,77 --> 00:19:59,70 a ground game that dwarfs anything Trump put together all Trump had was 251 00:19:59,71 --> 00:20:05,48 a message that resonated across the country and you know how that story came out I 252 00:20:05,49 --> 00:20:06,93 believe we have to come up with 253 00:20:06,94 --> 00:20:11,33 a message that will resonate to do that I met with eighty union carpenters Thursday 254 00:20:11,34 --> 00:20:14,27 night and when I walked in and I could tell it was 255 00:20:14,28 --> 00:20:17,55 a Republican crowd I said hey we got the Republicans in here and about eighty 256 00:20:17,56 --> 00:20:22,32 percent of the hands well I said OK so I did my ten minute pitch and then I said I 257 00:20:22,33 --> 00:20:27,07 came here to hear you tonight I've heard me talk enough what are your issues the 258 00:20:27,08 --> 00:20:33,45 issues were jobs they didn't talk about guns it in talk about abortion it in talk 259 00:20:33,46 --> 00:20:37,85 about the environment they talked about jobs and they said the thing you're talking 260 00:20:37,86 --> 00:20:42,16 about with the highways that will really bring back jobs what are the jobs were 261 00:20:42,50 --> 00:20:45,76 their concern is for immigrants because the immigrants are moving in the skilled 262 00:20:45,77 --> 00:20:50,52 trades again and they're worried about losing their jobs we need to co-opt the 263 00:20:50,53 --> 00:20:56,28 Republicans because if we only campaign on democratic platforms I had guarantee you 264 00:20:56,40 --> 00:21:01,85 we will lose this election in November. I really. 265 00:21:03,92 --> 00:21:08,61 Think we're going to move on to our first question and all of you are going to have 266 00:21:08,62 --> 00:21:14,53 a chance to respond to this the question is What are your views on campaign finance 267 00:21:14,66 --> 00:21:19,13 and what are the campaign strategies you will use to beat Walden since he will 268 00:21:19,14 --> 00:21:24,27 likely outspend any challenger regardless of their fund raising tactic and the 269 00:21:24,28 --> 00:21:28,95 first person we're going to ask the answer this question is Mike Burton I'm gonna 270 00:21:28,96 --> 00:21:29,15 write 271 00:21:29,16 --> 00:21:34,98 a book when this is all over called Candidate School. And the first person I met 272 00:21:34,99 --> 00:21:37,71 when I decided I was going to run for Congress said Mike you're going to have to 273 00:21:37,72 --> 00:21:37,99 form 274 00:21:38,00 --> 00:21:42,49 a political action committee and you're going to have to start raising money so think 275 00:21:42,50 --> 00:21:42,73 about 276 00:21:42,74 --> 00:21:47,20 a district who is bigger is bigger than the state of Florida just to drive around 277 00:21:47,21 --> 00:21:49,17 just to come down here with my wife I mean 278 00:21:49,18 --> 00:21:54,32 a five hundred dollars the basic let's not talk about the millions that Walden has 279 00:21:54,33 --> 00:21:59,29 he in fact ten million twenty million he is going to have what ever it takes so 280 00:21:59,30 --> 00:22:04,60 let's not talk about money let's talk about what it's going to take it's going to 281 00:22:04,61 --> 00:22:07,59 take people knocking on doors and 282 00:22:07,60 --> 00:22:14,15 a story that's going to take some money but it's not going to take millions OK so 283 00:22:14,19 --> 00:22:18,38 what am I going to do about it I'm going to ask you if your candidate has not 284 00:22:18,39 --> 00:22:23,03 already asked you to knock on doors and make phone calls I am I have 285 00:22:23,04 --> 00:22:26,65 a sign up sheet over there here and all have a a walk list and 286 00:22:26,66 --> 00:22:32,22 a map for you to morrow we need to do this kind of work money is not going to win 287 00:22:32,23 --> 00:22:35,69 this election there's a lot of countries that have well there's 288 00:22:35,70 --> 00:22:41,58 a lot of different ways to approach it you don't agree with me he doesn't agree 289 00:22:41,59 --> 00:22:48,31 with me some countries have. A shortened campaign season some have caps 290 00:22:48,62 --> 00:22:54,31 on expenditures some up public financing those are all good ideas what we need to 291 00:22:54,32 --> 00:22:58,47 do is talk to people that is the revolution so the only way that we're going to win 292 00:22:58,48 --> 00:23:03,88 this election your candidate hasn't asked you to knock on doors yet I have sign up 293 00:23:03,89 --> 00:23:04,91 sheets over there we'll have 294 00:23:04,92 --> 00:23:11,91 a list for you tomorrow thank you. All right same question to 295 00:23:11,92 --> 00:23:18,78 Jim Kerry. Campaign finance reform is the reason I got into this race and it's my 296 00:23:18,79 --> 00:23:24,93 number one issue if you could pick an on sexy primary issue campaign finance reform 297 00:23:24,94 --> 00:23:29,68 would be yes but you know what campaign finance reform is something that actually 298 00:23:29,69 --> 00:23:30,38 deals with 299 00:23:30,39 --> 00:23:35,92 a system health care climate change those are issues that don't deal with the 300 00:23:35,93 --> 00:23:37,51 system so I want to make 301 00:23:37,52 --> 00:23:42,41 a systemic change not just address and I want to address the other issues don't get 302 00:23:42,42 --> 00:23:47,96 me wrong but I want to make that the change who thinks in this room that the way we 303 00:23:47,97 --> 00:23:53,42 finance our campaigns today is something that's really beneficial to you. 304 00:23:54,54 --> 00:23:59,95 Right nobody except I guess I don't see the Koch brothers in here otherwise they 305 00:23:59,96 --> 00:24:05,34 would as it was it up and said Yes so what's my answer to campaign finance reform 306 00:24:05,43 --> 00:24:09,52 it's right out of burning Sanders book he raised two hundred twenty seven million 307 00:24:09,53 --> 00:24:15,22 dollars in individual donations he showed that the way I want to do it and the way 308 00:24:15,23 --> 00:24:18,29 I am doing it is a viable way to finance 309 00:24:18,30 --> 00:24:23,95 a campaign I am and not only talking the talk I am walking the walk I am taking 310 00:24:23,96 --> 00:24:29,26 money only from individuals no corporations no unions although I totally support 311 00:24:29,27 --> 00:24:35,02 unions and I would love to be endorsed by unions and I would welcome cancer 312 00:24:35,03 --> 00:24:39,13 beauticians from individual union members but you know what the only way we're 313 00:24:39,14 --> 00:24:43,67 going to change it is by actually doing it when we get elected or when I get 314 00:24:43,68 --> 00:24:45,30 elected and I go to D.C. 315 00:24:45,45 --> 00:24:50,94 And I've shown that you can get elected by only taking individual donations other 316 00:24:50,95 --> 00:24:55,83 people would do the same thing my answer is public financing of elections I would 317 00:24:55,84 --> 00:25:00,24 like to see everybody have fifty dollars and the only thing you could do with that 318 00:25:00,25 --> 00:25:01,96 would be to contribute to an issue or in 319 00:25:01,97 --> 00:25:06,54 a candidate that you could vote for we have about five hundred thousand registered 320 00:25:06,55 --> 00:25:12,57 voters in District two that would mean twenty five million dollars from 321 00:25:12,61 --> 00:25:17,27 non-special interest can you imagine people would be coming back not only for your 322 00:25:17,28 --> 00:25:24,06 vote but also for your contribution thanks. All right we're going to move on 323 00:25:24,46 --> 00:25:29,66 to any. At this point we know that we've got 324 00:25:29,85 --> 00:25:34,78 a lot of money up against us with Greg Walden but we also know that we need to get 325 00:25:34,79 --> 00:25:39,57 that ground game out there but we also need some money to do that Bernie managed to 326 00:25:39,58 --> 00:25:43,54 raise over two hundred million dollars and he needed that to help make that ground 327 00:25:43,55 --> 00:25:49,24 game happen I am lucky enough to have as my campaign manager someone who spent all 328 00:25:49,25 --> 00:25:53,88 of twenty sixteen mobilizing that ground game getting that vote out and getting 329 00:25:53,89 --> 00:25:58,83 that people to work the getting those people out there voting that we need I know 330 00:25:58,84 --> 00:26:03,70 that we can do this it is going to take some money and I have the ability because 331 00:26:03,83 --> 00:26:08,66 how care is finally at the top of everyone's list to bring money into this district 332 00:26:08,88 --> 00:26:13,79 from people who care about health care people know that people who are in health 333 00:26:13,80 --> 00:26:17,38 care who've been dealing with it day in and day out are going to be able to help 334 00:26:17,39 --> 00:26:21,86 make these changes happen and they care and they're not looking for influence or 335 00:26:21,87 --> 00:26:27,03 looking for change and I'll be able to tap into that money from physicians and 336 00:26:27,04 --> 00:26:31,86 health care workers around the country who are going to help us get Greg Walden who 337 00:26:31,87 --> 00:26:36,48 tried to repeal our first advances in health care out of there so we can actually 338 00:26:36,49 --> 00:26:43,40 make some real change of. Thinking if then that's are going to move on 339 00:26:43,41 --> 00:26:48,36 to rise Masons. Are right some hearing some great things from the other candidates 340 00:26:48,37 --> 00:26:53,34 thank you I'm going to go big picture this is about money and what money means in 341 00:26:53,35 --> 00:26:57,10 our society for too long money has become 342 00:26:57,14 --> 00:27:03,55 a short term way of thinking that it's security and salvation when I'm hopeful for 343 00:27:04,26 --> 00:27:08,48 something miraculous will happen following the hard work and the relationship 344 00:27:08,49 --> 00:27:12,56 building which really is fundamental to our paradigm shift and I think our I really 345 00:27:12,57 --> 00:27:18,05 mean the people in this room we understand that this is a relational. In 346 00:27:18,06 --> 00:27:24,63 a prize that puts again human dignity at the forefront. Imagine if you will lots 347 00:27:24,64 --> 00:27:29,95 and lots and lots of money flowing into this race to try to beat whoever is the 348 00:27:29,96 --> 00:27:36,58 Democratic candidate so much money in fact that the Don't Fence Me In people 349 00:27:36,59 --> 00:27:39,44 a rural Oregon finally say wait 350 00:27:39,45 --> 00:27:45,67 a minute I'm for the little people maybe maybe that's who I should be listening to 351 00:27:46,19 --> 00:27:51,54 maybe that's where I should be getting my information and my news I don't know how 352 00:27:51,55 --> 00:27:55,51 long it's going to take we may be able to pull it off as year it doesn't matter we 353 00:27:55,51 --> 00:27:58,13 need to keep doing what we're doing and there is 354 00:27:58,14 --> 00:28:00,40 a lot of good thinking here you all have 355 00:28:00,41 --> 00:28:04,32 a lot of good thinking there's excitement but it's going to take us continuing to 356 00:28:04,33 --> 00:28:08,90 show up and give where we can and I think what's eventually going to win folks over 357 00:28:08,92 --> 00:28:12,88 is and when they see people and meet them who are speaking with integrity and 358 00:28:12,89 --> 00:28:19,87 genuinely concerned about one another. Thank you so much we're 359 00:28:19,88 --> 00:28:26,79 going to move on to Erick bring that in the first place I think what we're looking 360 00:28:26,80 --> 00:28:31,16 at for this election cycle the things that we can affect for this election cycle of 361 00:28:31,32 --> 00:28:34,96 are not going to be related to finance whoever wins this race is going to be 362 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:39,59 severely outspent by Greg Walden we know that we don't need to raise one more 363 00:28:39,60 --> 00:28:44,74 dollar than him we just need to get one more vote that said Are you move on to 364 00:28:44,75 --> 00:28:49,24 strategy here read we're all America already has 365 00:28:49,25 --> 00:28:54,53 a Republican Party they appear to like it and if we want them to do something 366 00:28:54,54 --> 00:28:58,72 different we have to offer them something different we will not win by being 367 00:28:58,73 --> 00:29:04,72 Republicans or white. We need to offer something different something better and 368 00:29:04,73 --> 00:29:08,81 something progressive and we need to differentiate ourselves and we need to make 369 00:29:08,86 --> 00:29:14,17 that message become clear again and again and again we're not going to win by being 370 00:29:14,18 --> 00:29:19,27 Republicans light is the strategy question that we can impact in this race the 371 00:29:19,28 --> 00:29:24,18 finance question yes absolutely we need public campaign financing that's not going 372 00:29:24,19 --> 00:29:29,34 to happen in twenty eighteen we can change the strategy and that's what this is 373 00:29:29,35 --> 00:29:35,58 about. Thank you very much we're going to move on to can wait. 374 00:29:38,87 --> 00:29:42,40 Well as we all know Mr walling got about ninety five percent of his money from 375 00:29:42,41 --> 00:29:47,70 outside the district mostly outside of state. He will continue to do that he's 376 00:29:47,71 --> 00:29:52,32 already raised about four million this election and he will my guess is about six 377 00:29:52,33 --> 00:29:53,92 million with one and 378 00:29:53,93 --> 00:29:58,30 a half million morning last time are we going to be able to easily take money out 379 00:29:58,31 --> 00:30:03,25 of politics you know and I'm sorry I know people are going to like that answer but 380 00:30:03,40 --> 00:30:06,86 the PAC industry is a hundred billion dollars 381 00:30:06,87 --> 00:30:10,33 a year and history if you think they're just going to walk away from this you are 382 00:30:10,34 --> 00:30:11,38 mistaken that's 383 00:30:11,39 --> 00:30:16,14 a problem being retired finance guy you can't get away from facts and figures now 384 00:30:16,15 --> 00:30:18,92 there when we talk about you know the health care obviously health care is 385 00:30:18,93 --> 00:30:24,24 a big issue in this and but seventeen of the twenty counties of us that this trick 386 00:30:24,52 --> 00:30:28,15 that one hundred thirty thousand people got their insurance by virtue of Medicaid 387 00:30:28,16 --> 00:30:33,11 subsidies and seventeen of the twenty counties turned it down these would have been 388 00:30:33,12 --> 00:30:39,62 the first people so our issue is going to be how to get these people to address 389 00:30:39,78 --> 00:30:41,28 a message or to how to give them 390 00:30:41,29 --> 00:30:46,61 a message that they will feel we are in their corner to support right now they 391 00:30:46,62 --> 00:30:47,26 don't think there's 392 00:30:47,27 --> 00:30:51,55 a difference between they don't think Walden's do anything for him but they don't 393 00:30:51,56 --> 00:30:51,78 see 394 00:30:51,79 --> 00:30:55,66 a Democrat standing up and doing anything better for them so they're just going to 395 00:30:55,67 --> 00:30:59,24 why change the horse in midstream he's been there all along they will continue we 396 00:30:59,25 --> 00:31:00,77 have to figure out how to get 397 00:31:00,78 --> 00:31:06,10 a message as much as I would like to get the money out of campaigns on my pliers is 398 00:31:06,11 --> 00:31:10,79 a five thousand per person no PACs no corporations only comes from registered 399 00:31:10,80 --> 00:31:15,95 voters yes I believe that but the problem is folks this is 400 00:31:15,96 --> 00:31:20,30 a multi hundred billion dollars industry that's not going quietly into the night 401 00:31:20,43 --> 00:31:26,68 we're going to have to come up with another way to attack this. Thank you so much 402 00:31:27,17 --> 00:31:33,62 and finally Jamie Macleod Skinner thanks so we don't have to outraise Greg Walden 403 00:31:33,66 --> 00:31:35,40 we just have to get as 404 00:31:35,41 --> 00:31:38,60 a said another vote and one extra vote and he does and so it's going to come down 405 00:31:38,61 --> 00:31:43,17 to working really hard and that's where the the upsurge in all the energy that 406 00:31:43,18 --> 00:31:47,40 we've seen around our district can be critically important around campaign finance 407 00:31:47,41 --> 00:31:50,17 yes we need campaign finance reform when I serve on 408 00:31:50,18 --> 00:31:54,74 a city council Here's what we did about it we recognize the fact that the Supreme 409 00:31:54,75 --> 00:31:59,21 Court set some boundaries and limited some of things that we could do so we looked 410 00:31:59,22 --> 00:32:03,54 at why people raise money they raise it to get the word out and so we created 411 00:32:03,55 --> 00:32:10,38 instead an incentive program so that people could raise additional resources 412 00:32:10,52 --> 00:32:13,21 if they opted into the program it was 413 00:32:13,25 --> 00:32:19,13 a voluntary program that people agree to cap the amount of money they raise and 414 00:32:19,14 --> 00:32:25,06 limit what they did to that capped amount of money it also created an incentive in 415 00:32:25,07 --> 00:32:29,63 providing additional ways for candidates to get the word out so we can create an 416 00:32:29,64 --> 00:32:31,10 incentive program that does 417 00:32:31,11 --> 00:32:36,99 a couple things shift the focus from just raising money to having helping people 418 00:32:37,00 --> 00:32:41,20 get the word out it also set the standard for all candidates the opt in or do you 419 00:32:41,21 --> 00:32:45,17 opt out there's tremendous pressure that would then be on candidates to opt in to 420 00:32:45,18 --> 00:32:51,59 the question is do you believe in campaign finance reform and restrictions do you 421 00:32:51,60 --> 00:32:56,38 believe in the integrity of the process over just raising money in setting up that 422 00:32:56,39 --> 00:32:57,35 kind of frame 423 00:32:57,60 --> 00:33:01,96 a candidate inevitably opted into it because if you didn't if they raise question 424 00:33:01,97 --> 00:33:07,38 about your focus on money versus voters and so that's the kind of carrot type 425 00:33:07,39 --> 00:33:11,78 program we can work within the current structure in the current sins in the United 426 00:33:12,04 --> 00:33:16,10 framework that the Supreme Court has established what I'd also like to see is this 427 00:33:16,46 --> 00:33:20,96 Congress pass legislation that would set the stage for legislation to go through 428 00:33:20,97 --> 00:33:24,49 and have the Supreme Court relook at it and hopefully overturn Citizens United. 429 00:33:27,26 --> 00:33:31,29 Thank you so much for those and there and we're going to move on the next question 430 00:33:31,30 --> 00:33:36,14 you will answer as well when you have him in it the question is tell us about 431 00:33:36,15 --> 00:33:40,69 Nick's periods or time in your life that helps you empathize with the vulnerable 432 00:33:40,70 --> 00:33:46,09 population and then what did you do and we're going to start with make Burn we were 433 00:33:46,10 --> 00:33:48,78 given these questions in advance so you think I'd have 434 00:33:48,79 --> 00:33:54,57 a really tight story that lasted one minute and fifty nine seconds my problem is 435 00:33:54,63 --> 00:33:59,63 I've lived my whole life like this so which which example my going to try to pull 436 00:33:59,64 --> 00:34:05,25 out well I'll try this because if you didn't cry about this experience it really 437 00:34:05,26 --> 00:34:08,48 wasn't that important so I was 438 00:34:08,49 --> 00:34:12,15 a Special Olympics goes for at least ten years and I did it two different times 439 00:34:12,55 --> 00:34:13,10 a year all from 440 00:34:13,11 --> 00:34:19,59 a was special epic So I tell the kids how to ski and snowboard and when I first got 441 00:34:19,60 --> 00:34:23,47 into it I used to run the race department at the Mt Hood medals and we hosted the 442 00:34:23,48 --> 00:34:29,30 state Special Olympics and I'd had no experience with it but seeing this go on and 443 00:34:29,31 --> 00:34:32,81 these kids the way they treated each other and I'm talking about the way the kids 444 00:34:32,82 --> 00:34:39,20 treated each other it was amazing I was so I was moved and so I signed up I'm going 445 00:34:39,21 --> 00:34:43,08 to start coaching so for the next ten years I worked with kids teaching them to ski 446 00:34:43,09 --> 00:34:48,33 and snowboard and these are kids that couldn't make it out there but when they were 447 00:34:48,34 --> 00:34:54,09 on the slopes they were free because skiing I created these. Just drills where you 448 00:34:54,10 --> 00:34:57,97 create muscle memory you do something over and over and I thought these kids they 449 00:34:57,98 --> 00:35:03,13 could ski they could fly down the mountain it was unbelievable they were so happy 450 00:35:03,14 --> 00:35:05,72 and we went into the lava you guys all see 451 00:35:05,76 --> 00:35:10,88 a big number of you right you don't know what we've been doing your whole life so 452 00:35:11,10 --> 00:35:14,64 you don't want a lot of them so crowded with regular people in these kids 453 00:35:14,65 --> 00:35:18,34 a good ride together and they would huddle up and they were supportive of each 454 00:35:18,35 --> 00:35:24,47 other and they felt like oh no you know but they get that I come on 455 00:35:24,48 --> 00:35:27,61 a school skiing we get back out on the hill and it was amazing 456 00:35:28,37 --> 00:35:31,26 a lot to tell you about my experiences was as a Corsa 457 00:35:31,66 --> 00:35:38,34 a whole different area with emotionally disturbed kids so on my Web site 458 00:35:38,35 --> 00:35:44,84 Congressman Byrne dot com. Thank you so much we're going to move on to Jenny 459 00:35:44,85 --> 00:35:48,81 nearing the same question two minutes so this is 460 00:35:48,82 --> 00:35:53,96 a pretty hard one for me because it's pretty much every day of my job but one day 461 00:35:53,97 --> 00:35:56,59 that kind of stood out when I was reviewing the question it was 462 00:35:56,60 --> 00:36:00,90 a day where I realize I had four patients that I had seen that day in the hospital 463 00:36:01,18 --> 00:36:05,81 who had all been were either actively homeless or had been homeless within the last 464 00:36:05,82 --> 00:36:11,28 year of the school were two of them has schizophrenia and had not been able to 465 00:36:11,29 --> 00:36:15,46 access the mental health and the medications that they needed to keep their life 466 00:36:15,47 --> 00:36:17,32 organized and be able to sign 467 00:36:17,33 --> 00:36:21,16 a contract and pay their rent on time and they had been living on the streets and 468 00:36:21,17 --> 00:36:26,10 under bridges the third person had actually won the lottery about five years 469 00:36:26,11 --> 00:36:28,31 earlier and had plenty of money to afford 470 00:36:28,32 --> 00:36:32,08 a place to live but he's been taken advantage of by many of his friends and that 471 00:36:32,09 --> 00:36:36,14 and become so depressed that he was drinking and living under the bridge. The 472 00:36:36,15 --> 00:36:40,82 fourth person may have been the fattest all those all of these were hard to hard to 473 00:36:40,83 --> 00:36:42,84 see the fourth one was 474 00:36:42,88 --> 00:36:47,06 a seventy one year old woman who had lost her husband when he was sixty and with 475 00:36:47,07 --> 00:36:52,22 the health issues that he had had in their low income jobs that they had worked 476 00:36:52,23 --> 00:36:56,36 hard all their lives His illness had made them lose most of their money that they 477 00:36:56,37 --> 00:37:00,52 had saved for retirement and she found herself unable to afford 478 00:37:00,53 --> 00:37:02,08 a place to live and 479 00:37:02,12 --> 00:37:06,68 a year earlier had moved in with her daughter her daughter was around forty and her 480 00:37:06,69 --> 00:37:11,26 daughter lost her job and they had spent the last year living out of her car and 481 00:37:11,30 --> 00:37:16,14 she was admitted to the hospital incredibly malnourished and be hydrated in pain 482 00:37:16,15 --> 00:37:21,91 for arthritis that she couldn't get help for help from her medications for and the 483 00:37:21,92 --> 00:37:26,95 day that she was admitted she had finally gotten her it's her housing approval to 484 00:37:26,96 --> 00:37:33,77 be able to get some affordable help get housing. What I saw from that day was that 485 00:37:33,78 --> 00:37:36,69 the cases that we see all the time one or two at 486 00:37:36,70 --> 00:37:40,77 a time all in one day made me realize that this is not going to be 487 00:37:40,78 --> 00:37:42,08 a unique problem this is 488 00:37:42,09 --> 00:37:47,26 a growing problem and especially for our seniors who don't have adequate insurance 489 00:37:47,79 --> 00:37:51,38 adequate retirement savings and that made me create 490 00:37:51,39 --> 00:37:56,04 a new nonprofit that good sample talk about later. I. 491 00:37:58,58 --> 00:38:05,52 Think one of them that we're going to move on to rise in the sense of well I was. I 492 00:38:05,53 --> 00:38:06,25 was working at 493 00:38:06,26 --> 00:38:10,93 a domestic violence shelter and one of my coworkers was Native American and she was 494 00:38:10,94 --> 00:38:14,84 helping to organize an event for elders in use up near Mt Hood at 495 00:38:14,85 --> 00:38:20,43 a camp to look at some of the issues and she said y'all come so I went and it was 496 00:38:20,44 --> 00:38:26,44 a really privileged opportunity for me to just volunteer we don't toilets I cooked 497 00:38:26,45 --> 00:38:30,85 and washed the dishes and looked after the kids and got to see what Jimmy was 498 00:38:30,86 --> 00:38:32,85 a very different way of organizing 499 00:38:32,99 --> 00:38:38,45 a community. There was no particular leader but folks showed up and did what needed 500 00:38:38,46 --> 00:38:44,01 to be done when it was. Meal time the kids would come to the front of the line get 501 00:38:44,02 --> 00:38:49,14 their food and take that food back to feed their grandma grandmas and grandpas. 502 00:38:52,28 --> 00:38:59,06 I met people who had been at Wounded Knee in the seventy's I heard about what was 503 00:38:59,07 --> 00:39:06,04 happening at Big Mountain with the forced relocation of Navajo folks taking away 504 00:39:06,05 --> 00:39:13,02 their sheep. All in service of Peabody Coal and I began to understand and feel and 505 00:39:13,03 --> 00:39:17,22 see the pain of these people that I came to love very deeply this is 506 00:39:17,23 --> 00:39:22,72 a for them it's the same old story so really touched me and it alerted me to the 507 00:39:22,73 --> 00:39:26,84 fact that there are institutional forms of oppression that some people fight every 508 00:39:26,85 --> 00:39:30,30 day so I'm still working on that journey of being an ally. 509 00:39:33,91 --> 00:39:37,74 But that's why that's why relationships matter and so when I think about why I 510 00:39:37,75 --> 00:39:38,71 stand up and do things 511 00:39:38,72 --> 00:39:41,54 a lot of times it's because I'm thinking of someone I knew from 512 00:39:41,55 --> 00:39:46,90 a particular cohort or group and I'm doing it because I love that person and they 513 00:39:46,91 --> 00:39:53,80 inspired me and I want to honor our connection. Thank 514 00:39:53,81 --> 00:40:00,64 you so much Eric Burnett. So if you've ever been involved in any like 515 00:40:00,65 --> 00:40:03,93 having infrastructure work or construction you've got to get big pieces of 516 00:40:03,94 --> 00:40:09,12 machinery to and from. Odd and uncomfortable places and if you're doing it on the 517 00:40:09,13 --> 00:40:13,68 river and normally involves putting big pieces of machinery onto barges and moving 518 00:40:13,69 --> 00:40:19,73 them where they need to go. One of the things that I had to do when I was working 519 00:40:19,74 --> 00:40:24,10 in grain export infrastructure was make sure that we can make all that happen make 520 00:40:24,11 --> 00:40:29,01 marshalling area along the Columbia River is about one hundred fifty acres and 521 00:40:29,02 --> 00:40:32,25 we're just about to get ready to use it again and so I said well we've got to get 522 00:40:32,26 --> 00:40:32,92 the police to go do 523 00:40:32,93 --> 00:40:36,96 a sweep to let him say well you know we've got some people living rough out there 524 00:40:36,97 --> 00:40:40,93 said Well let me just let me go out there first and just walk around and just see 525 00:40:40,94 --> 00:40:44,36 what I can find and I can warn people to stay out of the way in the windows the 526 00:40:44,37 --> 00:40:48,43 police department said yeah that's fine if you can do that that'd be great so I did 527 00:40:48,44 --> 00:40:50,75 that and I ended up meeting 528 00:40:51,05 --> 00:40:54,54 a bunch of folks who are living rough and there is something about them is like I'm 529 00:40:54,55 --> 00:40:58,51 a Maritime Academy guy these guys are kind and some His folks are military some of 530 00:40:58,52 --> 00:41:05,41 the women were military ex-military and I started talking with them and I said So 531 00:41:05,42 --> 00:41:09,54 you guys are all living rough out here to stay off of that corner if you would and 532 00:41:09,55 --> 00:41:12,18 we're going to be using this area the police know you're here and no one's going to 533 00:41:12,19 --> 00:41:16,39 Bosnia and thank you for the heads up and said So do you guys get V.A. 534 00:41:16,40 --> 00:41:20,98 Benefits is it oh no we don't know why we got a less than honorable discharge is 535 00:41:20,99 --> 00:41:26,91 a lot of these folks had been wounded they didn't get medical benefits at all they 536 00:41:26,92 --> 00:41:28,23 didn't get them because they had 537 00:41:28,24 --> 00:41:31,82 a less than honorable discharge almost in every case due to P.T.S.D. 538 00:41:32,46 --> 00:41:39,13 So my point of empathy there for Pete's sake is if you put your hand up and swear 539 00:41:39,23 --> 00:41:45,48 into the armed forces you get the medical benefit period where regardless of your 540 00:41:45,49 --> 00:41:49,24 discharge status I want to ask Greg Walden that question he's 541 00:41:49,25 --> 00:41:53,00 a champion of the vets Greg why don't they getting medical benefits. 542 00:41:56,22 --> 00:42:03,08 Thank you so much. Many moons ago when I was working back to Chrysler my boss 543 00:42:03,09 --> 00:42:06,79 called me up I was an engineer in finance of time and he said I I need 544 00:42:06,80 --> 00:42:08,23 a volunteer go get me 545 00:42:08,24 --> 00:42:12,72 a volunteer that's why we used to do things back then so I said well what do we 546 00:42:12,73 --> 00:42:16,87 need he said well it's called Project business we volunteered so many of the 547 00:42:16,88 --> 00:42:22,62 managers to go teach and or city schools downtown Detroit so I went back down and 548 00:42:23,12 --> 00:42:24,58 came back about them and players I got 549 00:42:24,59 --> 00:42:30,26 a volunteer he said Who and I said Me and Rob looked at me and said Not on your 550 00:42:30,27 --> 00:42:33,04 life I said Why it's a half day 551 00:42:33,05 --> 00:42:37,59 a week you'll get over I'll be back you know I'll be back I want to clock you know 552 00:42:37,87 --> 00:42:42,57 you can work me all night so I started teaching seventh and eighth grade girls in 553 00:42:42,58 --> 00:42:47,51 downtown Detroit about basic economics these kids came from probably the worst 554 00:42:47,83 --> 00:42:52,31 homes you could imagine broken homes single mothers except for A and they had 555 00:42:52,32 --> 00:42:56,21 really never had a role model somebody that actually showed up once 556 00:42:56,22 --> 00:43:01,38 a week and told them how the world really worked I used to always use McDonald's as 557 00:43:01,39 --> 00:43:05,09 my example about you know hey when the guy makes a hamburger and they sell 558 00:43:05,10 --> 00:43:08,19 a person the eight cents and they drop it on the floor how much money did they just 559 00:43:08,20 --> 00:43:14,35 lose and you know what we have all sorts of economic examples like this. And this 560 00:43:14,36 --> 00:43:17,80 went on for three months it got to the point that I when I would drive in the 561 00:43:17,81 --> 00:43:20,54 morning I would come up the back to school is 562 00:43:20,55 --> 00:43:24,43 a Catholic girls' school and they'd all be at the windows like I Mr Y. 563 00:43:24,47 --> 00:43:30,88 You know so it was really cool to be able to think that you were having perhaps one 564 00:43:30,89 --> 00:43:35,60 of the first positive impressions on these kids that they'd ever seen and at the 565 00:43:35,61 --> 00:43:39,44 end of the season or the end of the semester they gave me 566 00:43:39,45 --> 00:43:45,94 a card and when I opened it up they all chipped in to buy Mr White a Big Mac. 567 00:43:45,94 --> 00:43:51,58 . And you know it's it's it was really hard to be 568 00:43:51,59 --> 00:43:57,43 a grown man and to hide your eyes but I think today that those those kids are all 569 00:43:57,44 --> 00:44:01,63 grown up and maybe just one or two of them went on to do something else because I 570 00:44:01,64 --> 00:44:03,02 was willing to spend a half day 571 00:44:03,03 --> 00:44:11,37 a week thank you so much Tina hi Janet. Well 572 00:44:11,38 --> 00:44:17,04 I mentioned my mom earlier my interest or Mark two was my greatest role model and 573 00:44:17,08 --> 00:44:20,38 when I was nine this is the mid seventy's she took 574 00:44:20,39 --> 00:44:23,55 a teaching job in Tanzania and taught at 575 00:44:23,56 --> 00:44:27,15 a government school there where I went to school it was during the time of Yemen 576 00:44:27,16 --> 00:44:31,90 for those of you who remember and many of my classmates were refugees from Uganda 577 00:44:32,27 --> 00:44:36,25 and hearing their stories I remember their stories to this day and it made 578 00:44:36,26 --> 00:44:40,22 a couple impressions on me wanting is that government being 579 00:44:40,23 --> 00:44:41,76 a government being in leadership roles 580 00:44:41,77 --> 00:44:48,33 a sacred trust with your constituents and the other is the incredible courage and 581 00:44:48,34 --> 00:44:54,67 serve passion for survival that people have for refugees and it impacted me greatly 582 00:44:54,68 --> 00:44:58,84 and when I went on after working in Bosnia and Kosovo I wanted to come back to the 583 00:44:58,85 --> 00:45:02,43 states and the International Rescue Committee the organization of with asked me to 584 00:45:02,44 --> 00:45:06,54 run their refugee resettlement office in in the Bay Area and final day and I was 585 00:45:06,55 --> 00:45:12,45 delighted to do that because it felt like it going back into serving people that. 586 00:45:13,49 --> 00:45:17,68 And serving folks that were very similar to kids that I grew up with the other 587 00:45:17,69 --> 00:45:21,52 thing that I think that really them think makes it relevant for our district is in 588 00:45:21,79 --> 00:45:25,65 the past seven months when I've been traveling to all twenty counties or district 589 00:45:25,82 --> 00:45:29,18 many full time really reaching out connecting with folks throughout our district 590 00:45:29,75 --> 00:45:34,23 there are levels of poverty in our district that are similar to and comparable to 591 00:45:34,24 --> 00:45:38,79 refugees I work with there's issues that we're facing things like the opioid crisis 592 00:45:38,86 --> 00:45:44,31 that we're facing one in four Oregonians and the Klamath here loses very kind to 593 00:45:44,35 --> 00:45:48,92 recently published an op ed piece days in the opium crisis there are all sorts of 594 00:45:48,93 --> 00:45:53,76 issues in our community that we need to address and we need to focus on and we need 595 00:45:53,77 --> 00:45:58,27 that level of understanding from a visceral level in Washington D.C. 596 00:45:58,28 --> 00:46:01,90 On folks who are making decisions bottom these are not theoretical things these are 597 00:46:01,91 --> 00:46:05,77 things that impact people's lives and families and we need to be passionate about 598 00:46:05,78 --> 00:46:11,00 serving them and caring for them. Think we've got 599 00:46:11,01 --> 00:46:13,93 a man in Jim Carey. When I was 600 00:46:13,94 --> 00:46:20,10 a prosecutor up in Anchorage just about everything I did was alcohol related we had 601 00:46:20,11 --> 00:46:24,53 a victim witness coordinator that would deal with victims of domestic violence to 602 00:46:24,54 --> 00:46:28,70 make sure that they would be there to death the five I can't tell you how many 603 00:46:28,71 --> 00:46:35,26 times I did drunk driving cases when it was in the. Sentencing in the person that 604 00:46:35,27 --> 00:46:36,98 got hit by the drunk driver came in with 605 00:46:36,99 --> 00:46:42,08 a cane and the other person came in walk in just fine and I remember thinking the 606 00:46:42,12 --> 00:46:45,93 person that got it got life and this person got three days that was 607 00:46:45,94 --> 00:46:52,63 a drunk driver so when something really irritates me and alcohol abuse really 608 00:46:52,64 --> 00:46:57,21 irritates me I drink and I have no problem with someone drinking but when it turns 609 00:46:57,22 --> 00:46:58,51 into abuse that bothers me 610 00:46:58,52 --> 00:47:03,48 a whole lot you can either sit back and complain about it or you can step up and 611 00:47:03,49 --> 00:47:09,17 try to do something about it which is why I'm running for Congress but in that 612 00:47:09,18 --> 00:47:14,96 piece what I did is I did a local initiative up in Anchorage and it would have put 613 00:47:14,97 --> 00:47:20,54 a six percent sales tax on alcohol it would raise six million dollars And what was 614 00:47:20,55 --> 00:47:26,24 driving me was that I knew that with this six million dollars Some police officer 615 00:47:26,25 --> 00:47:29,80 would be hired and one night that police officer that got hired because of this 616 00:47:29,81 --> 00:47:31,01 extra money would make 617 00:47:31,02 --> 00:47:35,33 a drunk driving arrest and because that arrest was made somewhat his life would be 618 00:47:35,34 --> 00:47:39,64 saved no one would ever know that because how do you know your life has been saved 619 00:47:39,87 --> 00:47:45,59 and that you had the accident so that's what drove me and the alcohol industry came 620 00:47:45,60 --> 00:47:51,25 in from the outside and they outspent me five to one and I came within one half of 621 00:47:51,26 --> 00:47:56,38 one percent of getting an alcohol tax pass so it was 622 00:47:56,39 --> 00:48:01,23 a real challenge but it was something that was only worthwhile because I knew what 623 00:48:01,24 --> 00:48:08,17 the benefits would have been that had been passed Thank you. Thank you 624 00:48:08,18 --> 00:48:13,19 so much we're going to move on to the next question. Which we're going to ask you 625 00:48:13,20 --> 00:48:17,12 all to answer your last two minutes chance of a question tell us about 626 00:48:17,13 --> 00:48:21,19 a time in your life when you took an unpopular stance for something you deeply 627 00:48:21,20 --> 00:48:27,23 believe in we're going to start with Jenny an earring. So in my practice before I 628 00:48:27,68 --> 00:48:30,18 went to first practice I was in the for all of these so as 629 00:48:30,19 --> 00:48:35,88 a kid the doctor and I started my own practice and we grew fairly fast and we had 630 00:48:35,89 --> 00:48:40,47 about I think at that time five people in the practice and we were having 631 00:48:40,48 --> 00:48:45,35 a partner meeting and one of the partners said you know I found out that we can go 632 00:48:45,36 --> 00:48:50,01 ahead and go to this three day course and we can learn how to do ultrasounds of 633 00:48:50,02 --> 00:48:51,72 kidneys ourselves and we could buy 634 00:48:51,73 --> 00:48:56,46 a machine and do it here in the office for patients and I said all right but we 635 00:48:56,47 --> 00:49:00,78 live in an urban area where if you need an ultrasound How long does it usually take 636 00:49:00,79 --> 00:49:03,63 you to for your patient to get it they're like oh you know it's 637 00:49:03,76 --> 00:49:08,56 a day or two at most and I said OK if we send them for an ultrasound the person is 638 00:49:08,57 --> 00:49:13,11 doing the ultrasound is going to be a tech who probably trained at zero I.T. 639 00:49:13,35 --> 00:49:15,12 And who's been training for 640 00:49:15,13 --> 00:49:18,79 a long time to make sure they get the best pictures possible and then it's going to 641 00:49:18,80 --> 00:49:19,62 be looked at by 642 00:49:19,63 --> 00:49:23,00 a radiologist who spent four years of training to make sure they weren't going to 643 00:49:23,01 --> 00:49:26,98 miss anything so do you really think that if you go to 644 00:49:26,99 --> 00:49:31,21 a three day course you're going to be able to take those pictures yourself and read 645 00:49:31,22 --> 00:49:35,94 them with the accuracy of the people that we can send them to here in town and if 646 00:49:35,95 --> 00:49:40,33 you can tell me that you'd be happy to have the me read that and do that ultrasound 647 00:49:40,34 --> 00:49:44,73 just as happy as having us go to these experts who are already in town then we can 648 00:49:44,74 --> 00:49:51,60 buy that machine we can talk about it again after that. Though I know that standing 649 00:49:51,61 --> 00:49:55,80 on my ethics has never been really popular when it means that somebody is not 650 00:49:55,81 --> 00:49:59,94 making money but that's what we need in Congress right now because the only way 651 00:49:59,95 --> 00:50:03,97 we're going to fix these problems like our broken health care system and affordable 652 00:50:03,98 --> 00:50:07,81 housing are to make unpopular choices with some people were somebody is going to 653 00:50:07,82 --> 00:50:13,52 make less money. Thank you so much Ross Mason. 654 00:50:15,90 --> 00:50:19,87 If you recall back to my list of things I mentioned about my background you might 655 00:50:19,88 --> 00:50:20,97 have gotten the idea that I'm 656 00:50:20,98 --> 00:50:25,28 a little bit of an odd duck and that's been the case throughout my life and for 657 00:50:25,29 --> 00:50:32,28 whatever reason I have an instinct for fairness and speaking truth and I 658 00:50:32,29 --> 00:50:36,40 will end up with my foot in my mouth more than I wish were the case when to tell 659 00:50:36,41 --> 00:50:41,28 you two quick stories because I think they're going to go fast one is that I know 660 00:50:41,29 --> 00:50:45,44 a woman who is in education on the East Coast and now summer when there was 661 00:50:45,45 --> 00:50:51,47 a lot of discussion of blood around black lives matter I thought my other educators 662 00:50:51,52 --> 00:50:54,91 in the school district where I worked might want to know about this because I was 663 00:50:54,92 --> 00:50:59,43 learning a great deal and my understanding was that educators to get 664 00:50:59,47 --> 00:51:01,51 a license renewal you have to take 665 00:51:01,52 --> 00:51:08,46 a class on supporting civil liberties and I think in my 666 00:51:08,47 --> 00:51:12,19 schooling I've encountered that we have an obligation to serve all students and so 667 00:51:12,20 --> 00:51:16,52 I said I sent out an e-mail saying there's this woman she's got the sense that page 668 00:51:16,53 --> 00:51:20,43 and Twitter and if you've been watching what's been happening with black lives 669 00:51:20,44 --> 00:51:24,22 matter and you're wondering what's next or how you might get involved here's 670 00:51:24,23 --> 00:51:24,66 somebody who's 671 00:51:24,67 --> 00:51:31,06 a resource person and the response from the district Well for one person who was 672 00:51:31,98 --> 00:51:37,08 well regarded was to say there are two sides to every story there are certainly two 673 00:51:37,09 --> 00:51:44,05 sides to this. She read it as being against the police as though that meant 674 00:51:44,09 --> 00:51:44,66 if I support 675 00:51:44,67 --> 00:51:50,58 a black lives matter that I was against the police which is far from far from the 676 00:51:50,59 --> 00:51:53,51 case I used to work in the midst of violence and they would take us from danger to 677 00:51:53,52 --> 00:51:55,35 safety so it's 678 00:51:55,36 --> 00:52:01,49 a complex issue but my takeaway from that is that sometimes we're going to stumble 679 00:52:01,50 --> 00:52:05,78 and fall when we're trying to do the right thing and we need to stand up and keep 680 00:52:05,79 --> 00:52:12,42 doing it anyway and get smarter the next time. I thank you so 681 00:52:12,43 --> 00:52:19,02 much Eric Burnett. It is 682 00:52:19,06 --> 00:52:22,33 not at all unlikely that one of us here 683 00:52:22,47 --> 00:52:29,16 a year from now may be voting on impeachment and if we're thinking about OK 684 00:52:32,44 --> 00:52:37,14 I look back at what happened with Bill Clinton and I thought you know if I was 685 00:52:37,15 --> 00:52:41,48 sitting the house would I have voted to impeach I would have he didn't tell the 686 00:52:41,49 --> 00:52:45,90 truth he was being investigated and it was something that directly involved his 687 00:52:45,91 --> 00:52:49,37 presidency so in that did not earn 688 00:52:49,69 --> 00:52:53,82 a lot of friends in certain quarters that probably isn't going to surprise anybody 689 00:52:54,10 --> 00:52:57,35 but I do believe you actually have to tell the darn truth if you're being 690 00:52:57,36 --> 00:53:03,43 investigated and it involves It involves an office that you hold now I think 691 00:53:03,44 --> 00:53:09,09 a replica options of that had he had he actually was and he did survive his his 692 00:53:09,10 --> 00:53:14,47 trial in the Senate the next thing I thought was for Pete's sake the morning after 693 00:53:14,48 --> 00:53:17,80 Al Gore should have walked into that office and said hey Bill we're going to have 694 00:53:17,81 --> 00:53:21,100 a half hour meeting and at the end of it one of the two of us is going to resign 695 00:53:22,42 --> 00:53:28,61 and you get to pick which hath that happened I'm convinced that Al Gore either 696 00:53:28,62 --> 00:53:32,91 would have been the president because he was an incumbent or would have had enough 697 00:53:32,92 --> 00:53:33,06 of 698 00:53:33,07 --> 00:53:40,77 a moral distance from Bill Clinton to have won that election so ugly 699 00:53:40,78 --> 00:53:47,22 that there. Thank you so much. Liz I like that line 700 00:53:47,95 --> 00:53:53,08 well I wasn't so much as unpopular but it pretty much almost got me fired after 701 00:53:53,09 --> 00:53:58,98 about eight years of my career. I don't know how much you bucks no doubt automotive 702 00:53:58,100 --> 00:54:04,72 assembly but it's dangerous it's hard these people and they spent ten hours on the 703 00:54:04,73 --> 00:54:08,80 line. I had some positions in my career where I could make 704 00:54:08,82 --> 00:54:11,61 a difference for these people anybody know what 705 00:54:11,62 --> 00:54:17,55 a leaf spring is. OK well over and when's or assembly we had we used to make what 706 00:54:17,56 --> 00:54:18,78 we call B bandwagons 707 00:54:18,79 --> 00:54:23,76 a really old fashioned great big ones and I was in the plant watching this guy 708 00:54:23,80 --> 00:54:28,12 carrying these forty to eighty pound leaf springs and having to walk about forty 709 00:54:28,13 --> 00:54:30,96 feet and then try to hold it in one position we put 710 00:54:30,97 --> 00:54:36,85 a pen in and I said is that what's the accident rate in here well it's the worst 711 00:54:36,86 --> 00:54:41,14 place in the plant. And so I said was anything we can do it he said yeah we could 712 00:54:41,15 --> 00:54:44,43 get these carousels the guy can really stand here and I could lift it up to the to 713 00:54:44,44 --> 00:54:48,53 the bandwagons it comes along and it was about four hundred thousand dollars so I 714 00:54:48,54 --> 00:54:53,53 took it to my corporate control room I said we really need to do this it's where 715 00:54:53,54 --> 00:54:53,69 have 716 00:54:53,70 --> 00:54:59,39 a lot of accidents in the plants it's really tough work and Jim just hated spending 717 00:54:59,40 --> 00:55:04,73 money on this is a waste of money and I made an unpopular comment for 718 00:55:04,74 --> 00:55:08,07 a young guy well maybe if you had to stand there ten damn hours 719 00:55:08,08 --> 00:55:09,49 a day and do it you'd have 720 00:55:09,50 --> 00:55:15,14 a little different opinion. He signed the project and as I walked out and his 721 00:55:15,15 --> 00:55:18,03 assistant came after me and said you're lucky you've still got 722 00:55:18,04 --> 00:55:23,15 a job young man I did this several times over my career I talked in Klamath the 723 00:55:23,16 --> 00:55:24,46 other night about I'm 724 00:55:24,47 --> 00:55:27,54 a little bit different from some it came out of corporate America I had 725 00:55:27,55 --> 00:55:32,60 a certain respect for these people that I believe paid my paycheck every month and 726 00:55:32,64 --> 00:55:37,87 I still do I'm not I'm not afraid to take in the unpopular position and to stand up 727 00:55:37,88 --> 00:55:41,61 for the people that I don't think somebody else is standing up for him that's why 728 00:55:41,62 --> 00:55:44,91 I'm doing this because I want to stand up for rural America because I don't think 729 00:55:44,92 --> 00:55:45,44 anybody's giving 730 00:55:45,45 --> 00:55:52,31 a damn about him or the moment. Thank you so much all right team MacLeod dinner. 731 00:55:53,35 --> 00:55:57,39 Thank you and look at this question I was thinking about I talked about being 732 00:55:57,40 --> 00:56:01,02 gaijin civil disobedience of the young adults because gay people are allowed to 733 00:56:01,31 --> 00:56:05,68 march in the St Patrick's Day parade in New York and from the work I did there I 734 00:56:05,69 --> 00:56:08,90 thought about fighting corporate welfare when I served on the Santa Clara city 735 00:56:08,91 --> 00:56:11,21 council in the forty nine ers as the city to build them 736 00:56:11,22 --> 00:56:15,04 a one point two billion dollar publicly funded stadium and I was the only want to 737 00:56:15,05 --> 00:56:17,81 say no and to push back on that and to help shape 738 00:56:17,82 --> 00:56:21,94 a much better deal for the city but the the thing I want to focus on is something 739 00:56:21,95 --> 00:56:25,73 that took place actually just down the road from us where we are now what happened 740 00:56:25,77 --> 00:56:31,68 in the city of Phoenix I believe fundamentally in integrity in government in open 741 00:56:31,69 --> 00:56:36,30 government in people making people who are elected to serve to make decisions about 742 00:56:36,31 --> 00:56:40,74 public resources and. Over will but a year and 743 00:56:40,75 --> 00:56:44,48 a half ago I think it is I stepped in as the city manager I was hired as 744 00:56:44,49 --> 00:56:49,06 a city manager and I stepped in and began to address I was the eighth they had 745 00:56:49,07 --> 00:56:51,21 seven years and hits 746 00:56:51,69 --> 00:56:56,24 a good team and stepped in to to deal with some of the misappropriated 747 00:56:56,56 --> 00:57:01,13 misappropriation of funds that were going on I began to push back on decisions that 748 00:57:01,14 --> 00:57:05,94 were being made not in the public eye and it became very clear to me that I was 749 00:57:05,95 --> 00:57:11,75 going to face the salivate dilemma at the local level. In the question is do I keep 750 00:57:11,76 --> 00:57:17,14 quiet go along and protect myself or do I speak out and push back and risk being 751 00:57:17,15 --> 00:57:20,30 fired and it wasn't really 752 00:57:20,31 --> 00:57:24,17 a choice for me because I believe in integrity in government and I believe that 753 00:57:24,18 --> 00:57:25,62 one's role if you're in 754 00:57:25,63 --> 00:57:30,03 a leadership role is to speak up and take the hits necessary to protect your 755 00:57:30,04 --> 00:57:36,45 constituents and I did that and I took the hits and so I the the mayor targeted me 756 00:57:36,46 --> 00:57:40,72 and then when he didn't make it clear he wanted to kick me out I actually asked for 757 00:57:40,73 --> 00:57:45,47 an open meeting so that I could air the issues in the city that meant I got hit 758 00:57:45,48 --> 00:57:47,89 hard with a person he attacked I'm 759 00:57:47,90 --> 00:57:52,29 a personality issue but I did that for the cities I could disclose the issues the 760 00:57:52,30 --> 00:57:55,70 cities the city it cleaned up and there's been forced new measures in the past year 761 00:57:55,71 --> 00:58:02,67 by the way. Including I'm Jim Carey. I keep going 762 00:58:02,68 --> 00:58:06,96 back to the same issue of campaign finance reform and it's really not popular 763 00:58:06,97 --> 00:58:13,72 because it's totally on sexy but again I go back to it. Albert Einstein said 764 00:58:14,13 --> 00:58:17,33 insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting 765 00:58:17,34 --> 00:58:22,18 a different result so I think everybody here agrees that we have 766 00:58:22,19 --> 00:58:27,30 a lousy way to finance campaigns but unless we change that. Are we going to stay 767 00:58:27,31 --> 00:58:33,95 insane and I think we are. I want to have people of elected that will actually 768 00:58:33,96 --> 00:58:40,88 represent us their constituents not their big dollar contributors and so people 769 00:58:40,89 --> 00:58:43,39 come up to me all the time as a lawyer you're not 770 00:58:43,40 --> 00:58:47,32 a serious candidate because you know you're not making money from anyone but 771 00:58:47,33 --> 00:58:51,44 individuals and I say you know what I'm dead serious I am going forty thousand 772 00:58:51,45 --> 00:58:55,30 miles throughout congressional district who have been away from home for days on 773 00:58:55,31 --> 00:58:59,31 end and thousands of my own dollars because I'm not serious I mean it's 774 00:58:59,32 --> 00:59:05,28 a win but I'm not in it to win doing it the way it's always been done look at 775 00:59:05,29 --> 00:59:07,96 Bernie Sanders who the heck would have thought that guy had 776 00:59:07,97 --> 00:59:13,19 a chance against Hillary Clinton why are we talking about health care today because 777 00:59:13,20 --> 00:59:17,87 Bernie Sanders was talking about health care in two thousand sixteen Why am I 778 00:59:17,88 --> 00:59:23,04 talking about campaign finance reform same reason he showed the way he raised two 779 00:59:23,05 --> 00:59:27,62 hundred twenty seven million bucks it can be done everybody that says it can't be 780 00:59:27,63 --> 00:59:34,52 done I beg to differ I am not going to be Greg Walden in 781 00:59:34,53 --> 00:59:41,23 November of two thousand and eighteen but we are going to be Greg 782 00:59:41,24 --> 00:59:46,83 Walden in two thousand and eighteen and after I get elected and go to Congress and 783 00:59:47,75 --> 00:59:53,95 campaign finance reform is going to happen thank you. Thank you so much Jim going 784 00:59:53,96 --> 00:59:59,76 to move on to make. It was in a room similar to this son river just 785 00:59:59,77 --> 01:00:06,62 a couple weeks ago you guys were all there. So it was crowded more 786 01:00:06,63 --> 01:00:07,23 crowded in 787 01:00:07,24 --> 01:00:13,21 a smaller room people sitting on the floors lined up against the wall and we got 788 01:00:13,22 --> 01:00:18,50 ten minutes to talk there not just you know so I was about the fourth or fifth one 789 01:00:18,51 --> 01:00:23,92 to go so all these folks had been sitting up against the wall for over half an hour 790 01:00:23,97 --> 01:00:28,34 and when I came into the room I said before we get started please would some of you 791 01:00:28,35 --> 01:00:33,30 gentleman give up your seat to one or of the one or more of these ladies that are 792 01:00:33,86 --> 01:00:35,43 been standing up against the wall for 793 01:00:35,44 --> 01:00:42,39 a half hour silence. All the men looked away 794 01:00:43,23 --> 01:00:49,81 all the women glared at me. You know what here's the issue and this is why I'm 795 01:00:49,82 --> 01:00:54,21 bringing up this particular situation we're talking about winning in Oregon 796 01:00:54,22 --> 01:00:58,68 District Two we're not talking about winning an election in Jackson County we're 797 01:00:58,69 --> 01:01:02,36 talking about eastern Oregon we're talking about District two I'm here to tell you 798 01:01:02,37 --> 01:01:07,15 in District two men give up their seats to women it's not a sexist thing 799 01:01:07,36 --> 01:01:08,93 a bodhisattva is going to give up 800 01:01:08,94 --> 01:01:15,89 a seat to anybody so I made no friends in that crowd it was 801 01:01:15,90 --> 01:01:22,40 complete silence and I looked at it everyone and said You're kidding silence 802 01:01:23,76 --> 01:01:28,42 but I'm here to tell you that's what it's going to take to win in District two you 803 01:01:28,43 --> 01:01:29,28 might think I'm just 804 01:01:29,29 --> 01:01:34,09 a folksy candidate that's got stories I'm not taking this serious on taking a just 805 01:01:34,10 --> 01:01:37,75 a serious is my buddy Jim here. Come on we need 806 01:01:37,76 --> 01:01:44,56 a candidate that can relate to district to you give up your chair thing. 807 01:01:49,82 --> 01:01:53,13 Yes. Me I. 808 01:02:05,77 --> 01:02:08,72 Will. 809 01:02:28,82 --> 01:02:30,01 Be 810 01:02:30,02 --> 01:02:37,14 a. And 811 01:02:37,14 --> 01:02:40,21 . B. And.